Western Tarot symbolism
Suit of Swords
A suit of force, discernment, tension, and qualified harmony.
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Divinatory systems arrange signs into patterns of meaning. Explore the cards, symbols and correspondences described in particular works, and examine how their writers explain interpretation.
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Western Tarot symbolism
A suit of force, discernment, tension, and qualified harmony.
Western Tarot symbolism
Tarot’s staff-bearing suit, with images of enterprise and contested achievement.
Western Tarot symbolism
The supplied handbook assigns separate meanings to repeated ranks and to their reversed counterparts.
Western Tarot symbolism
A selected card represents the person or matter of inquiry and can change in a repeated reading.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan associates Taurus with the neck and throat and the colour red.
Western Tarot symbolism
The blending of life’s essences between earth and water.
Western Tarot symbolism
Ten cups arc above a household scene watched by two adults while children dance nearby.
Western Tarot symbolism
A household scene combines an archway, generations and dogs with family and archival meanings.
Western Tarot symbolism
A pierced prostrate figure receives an explicit qualification against a simple violent-death reading.
Western Tarot symbolism
A bearer weighed down by ten staves gives the card its image of burden.
Baughan’s historical astrology
The rising sign or point considered in a nativity.
Western Tarot symbolism
Triumph and directed power whose external victories have limits.
Western Tarot symbolism
Material bondage depicted through a horned figure and chained pair.
Baughan’s historical astrology
The paired lunar nodes in the book’s astrological alphabet.
Western Tarot symbolism
Seated sovereignty as executive power, reason, and realization.
Western Tarot symbolism
Fruitful earthly life represented through stars, grain, water, and Venus.
Western Tarot symbolism
The Tarot traveler poised between innocence, freedom, and uncertainty.
Baughan’s historical astrology
The elemental groups that link signs in threes.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The inverted Tarot figure read as the adept and the completion of the great work.
Western Tarot symbolism
A lantern held aloft as an invitation from attained knowledge.
Western Tarot symbolism
The public transmission of sacred order through an established institution.
Western Tarot symbolism
Keeper of a partly concealed law between contrasting temple pillars.
Western Tarot symbolism
Human love shown beneath an angel within a scene of Eden.
Western Tarot symbolism
A raised wand and downward hand connect intention with manifestation.